Follow the story of Beatrice in Volume One, "Lady Pokingham," where sordid adventures in the sexual underworld are commonplace, and virginal fantasies, flagellation, and Catholic guilt manifest themselves as streams of erotic poetry. In Volume Two, "La Rose d'Amour," a young man is influenced by his lusty young cousins, who invite him to join an illicit club of debauchery and brandy-saturated orgies, where pearl necklaces and see-through negligees are the only dress codes required.

'Sadopaideia' is a shocking, explicit, classic tale of Sado Masochism at the heart of English high society. Set in London and the Dorset coast, in an era of English history where corporal punishment was freely dispensed, the characters represent the core principles of disobedience, chastisement and compliance. How far is too far? Cecil Prendergast has a problem. He has been selected by Muriel Harcourt and her maid as the third dimension in their relationship. The 'problem' is that Muriel likes to beat Cecil's backside with a bamboo cane. Before long, a new master emerges - and Cecil finally asserts his dominance. Through disciplinary scenes, he wages a war of retribution via stinging pleasure and mutual consent - and punishes Muriel, her maid and Muriel's two nieces in turn.

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the
is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.
The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.

An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanis.ads"—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century bce, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanity’s perennial search for truth and knowledge. Valerie Roebuck’s powerful new translation blends accuracy with readability and retains the oral style of these stirring and profound philosophical explorations.

The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere.
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art.
The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures—dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny.
Drawn from The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China's millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest "Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies" and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West.

《一千零一夜》的作者虽然佚名，却是影响了西方众多经典作家的阿拉伯古典文学名著。它具有浓厚的浪漫色彩、美妙奇特的想象和瑰丽多姿、神秘莫测的故事情节等艺术特色，同时由于它展示了广阔的社会背景，反映了当时社会生活的现实面貌，体现了形式上的浪漫主义和内容上的现实主义的巧妙结合，成为研究中世纪阿拉伯帝国的“百科全书”。

故事的起因是一位国王因王后与人私通，便每夜都要娶一个女人，翌晨便杀死，以此消除心中愤恨。而宰相的女儿为解救国中女子便自愿嫁给国王，每日给国王讲一个故事，例如“渔夫与魔鬼”“阿里巴巴与四十大盗”“辛巴达航海历险记”……共讲了一千零一夜，最终感化了国王。

本书内容包括万象，大故事套小故事，情节奇幻诡异，节奏感鲜明。书中常将威严的帝王与平凡的百姓，将常见的花鸟鱼虫与想象中的神魔鬼怪，巧妙地融合在一篇篇富有哲理、耐人寻味的故事中，将主人公与命运抗争、与大自然周旋、与成功路途中的种种艰难险阻做斗争的勇敢表现展现在读者面前。读来犹如身临其境，令人不忍释卷。

"The I Ching", or "Book of Changes", a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it has been rapidly spreading in the West.

Lázaro es un muchacho desarrapado a quien la miseria obliga a emplearse como sirviente. Las inocentes y a veces justificadas burlas con las que Lázaro se defiende de sus amos son castigadas con una crueldad brutal.

Así, garrotazo a garrotazo, la simpleza y credulidad del Lázaro de las primeras páginas ceden paso a la sagacidad y a la astucia propias del más clásico y típico de los pícaros.

一直以来,人们都在研究应该如何提高时间的使用效率。而当下,人们开始注重生活的品质,关注工作与生活的平衡。人们不再像从前那样只重视"完成大量的工作",而且追求"身心满足的幸福"。 每个人每天的时间都是24小时,别样的人生在于不同的时间使用方法。改变人生就是改变时间的使用方法,其首要是改变生活方式。你必须要知道自己在"什么"事情上花了多少时间,也就是本书作者所说的第一步,可视化你的时间。 提高时间效率无外乎两种方法：一是拉长时间的长度,科学地设计时间,安排好工作时间和私人时间,学会节省时间；二是提高时间的密度,合理地分配精力,提升脑力、意志力、行动力和注意力,提高单位时间的效率。 本书作者结合心理学、神经科学、行为经济学等最新研究成果,阐明了人生获得幸福感、充实感的根源,解析大脑容易受到欺骗的机制,同时介绍了一些时间管理的窍门,助你高效使用每天的24小时。 这是一本让你对时间管理耳目一新的书,刷新你对时间管理的认知。它既能帮你科学地管理时间,又能帮你合理地分配精力,培养不折腾而又高效的工作和生活方式。正如作者所说,本书的目的是"让你度过每天都想从床上一跃而起的人生"。

·中国伊斯兰教协会推荐·《古兰经》是伊斯兰教的根本经典，在世界文化宝库中占有重要的地位。我社于20世纪80年代初出版的马坚先生的汉译本，由于翻译忠实、准确、流畅，受到了包括各族穆斯林在内的广大读者的欢迎，一直畅销不衰，并远布海外，在国内外穆斯林中享有崇高的地位，被沙特阿拉伯定为国际汉文《古兰经》钦定本。中国伊斯兰教协会及有关部门出版的各类书刊均以此为首选译本加以引用，本译本得到了伊斯兰教界和学术界的广泛认同和赞誉。此次应广大读者要求，新版重印，以全新的面貌面世。“圣训”是《古兰经》的解释和补充，是伊斯兰教阐明教义，制定教律的重要根据，读者可《古兰经》与《布哈里圣训实录精华》结合阅读。

Biblija ili Sveto pismo jest zbirka knjiga koje Hebreji i kršćani na svoj način smatraju svetima. Dijeli se u dva velika dijela: Stari i Novi zavjet.
Kršćani Bibliju proučavaju kao svoju normativnu, za život smjerodavnu knjigu u kojoj oni nalaze poruku - riječ Božju. No, Biblija je uz to i spomenik historije čovječanstva, jedna od najstarijih knjiga, u kojoj je genij Hebreja na svoj način asimilirao i dalje obogatio razmišljanje i mudrost drevne Mezopotamije i Egipta, da je onda, obogaćenu grčkim genijem, po Novom zavjetu i daljnjem kršćanskom razmišljanju unese u tadašnji grčko-rimski svijet. Po postanku i jeziku, po sadržaju i stilu, po slikovitosti i metaforici, Biblija nije jedna knjiga, nego zbir knjiga koje su nastajale u razdoblju od 13. st. pr. Kr do 2. st. po Kr.
Biblija je za kršćane sveta, inspirirana i kanonska knjiga. Za svakog čovjeka Biblija je istovremeno zbirka povijesnih isprava i književno djelo izvorne i neprolazne umjetničke snage. Ona pripada zajedničkoj kulturi čovječanstva.
Stari zavjet u Bibliji Stvarnosti plod je mnogostruko udruženog rada hrvatskih bibličara i književnika. Kao polazišni tekst izabran je prijevod Antuna Sovića, s tim da je Petoknjižje preveo Silvije Grubišić, Psalme Filibert Gass, a Pjesmu nad pjesmama Nikola Miličević. Novi zavjet preveo je Ljudevit Rupčić.

When does the cost of staying silent become greater than the price of speaking up? A desperate woman risks everything to expose the sinister company at the heart of Severance, the thrilling Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson, now streaming on Apple TV+, about a daring experiment in "work-life balance."
From the minds behind the series, this is the story of Lumon Industries employee Margaret "Peg" Kincaid.
When Peg gets hired at Lumon, she undergoes Severance, a surgical procedure pitched by the company as an effortless way to separate her personal and work lives. Everyone has their reasons for wanting the easy solution Severance promises, but when Peg realizes that not all is as it seems at the company, she uncovers a reality that's far worse than the problems she wanted to escape.
At the heart of this story, Peg's shocking confession reveals the darkest side of corporate America. It raises a chilling question: How far will Lumon Industries go to protect its secrets?